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11/26/2013 10:42AM

How People Are Shopping This Holiday

Nearly half of consumers plan to head online or to the stores this weekend as the holiday shopping season gets underway, according to a new survey from Deloitte. Joe Welter, partner at Deloitte & Touche, discusses trends on MoneyBeat.

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... mm ... about half of consumers plan to head Almlie Norths went to the stores this weekend about all the shopping season gets under way ... according to a new survey from the way ... well that's more than half of Americans it's actually down from a year ago when more shoppers than usual avoid the holiday craze this year ... Joe welter partner at the weight and says joins us to explain ... morning so you guys have this news early this coming up and previewing ... of the holiday season what what you seen ... the IQ we've been doing this or that for over twenty five years now ... we do one earlier you can't predict what's going to happen and we updated ... ran around the Thanksgiving weekend and now ... what we're seeing is as you say ... actually a few less people are going to be obese shopping this weekend than in the past ... and that's and that's gentle shopping even aam Jain right of ads on line and in the stores so if you look at what has which was Black Friday is sorted now ... Black Friday weekend restarts sometime on Thursday and end sometime on Monday with ... the traditional sort of cyber Monday to look at all of that ... less people are to be shopping this week ... so now lets people are stopped in the shopping this weekend are they going to be spending less as well would you see the people that are going shopping in the spanning more spending less money then see what our say the latest survey showed the directions spent about the same as last year's that didn't get alot done this weekend at the store to spread out over the whole weekend ... as you pointed out that spending it got pretty evenly between online and in stores ... so what does this say about the overall economy and you guys as you mentioned you can see in the survey for twenty five years you've got to have a handle on ... sort of review the holiday season and how they sort of interact ... or IPO of the results come in a somewhat the economy's doing so when you see right now here we've actually been them feel very iam successful in terms of being in a lucrative than forecasts for the year as well as the trends it'll happen ... and and really what we're saying is that of ... Americans feel better about the economy if you look at ... two thousand eleven two thousand twelve two thousand thirteen each year it's improved in terms of their out will generally with respect to the economy ... aam I know we see a lot of us are mixed kind of messages into some of the results that were seeing in some of the protections ... of by and large um a lot of the economic indicators aren't in a positive way and people are feeling pretty good about it so they are out there shop so why why are people then stop unless ... it was ... the scene when you consider that ... more than half the respondents ... to the haven't even started the Christmas shopping yet ... so move said that got about eighteen percent ... and it's pretty small number ... the combined that with the fact that is you know ... we have the fewest days this year between Thanksgiving and Christmas a lot that happened over the next several weeks ... of that being said ... they have more options usual dose Cyber Monday students such ... a big and this is because people eat the of the theory was that people use the routers in the high-speed networks available at their work sites on Monday when they got back from Thanksgiving weekend ... as you know more more people have access weather is that ... the old local shop a coffee shop or societal or yet they they have access to that stuff ... still they're finding it easier ... and by the way you know I think starting the last couple years of finding more more than to ... be relying on free shipping so aam line ... is more convenient and it's not more costly same deals online that you'll find ... up often in the stores for twenty years in the eye and the SARS on Black Friday off right and probably will in some alone time